8-Bit Pocket Camera, Homage to Game Boy Camera

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Is this the new Hipstamatic for nerds and scenesters?

By Levi Buchanan

Remember the Game Boy Camera, the bubble-ish digital camera attachment for the Game Boy? It was a delightful piece of low tech from Nintendo that let you take photos with your Game Boy and then – if you shelled out for the printer attachment – print them out in itty-bitty form.

8-Bit Pocket Camera Well, iOS developer Dezro certainly remembers it and has whipped up 8-Bit Pocket Camera, an app that recreates the monochromatic camera. The interface mirrors the classic Game Boy Camera quite well, including the purposefully grainy viewfinder. There are a handful of effects you can apply to your photos, too.

Once finished, though, instead of sending them to a little thermal printer, you instead upload them to Twitter or Facebook and then giggle at those of us who thought this was really cool in 1998.

8-Bit Camera is just 99 cents. If you're a retrofan or a hipster, this could very well be your next Hipstamatic.